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It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

Honore de Balzac

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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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